N00081:39
Wine for Gospel wantons
Wine for Gospel wantons: or, Cautions against spiritual drunkenness. Being the brief notes of a sermon preached at Cambridge in New-England, upon a day of public fasting and prayer throughout the colony, June 25. 1645. In reference to the sad estate of the Lords people in England. / By that Reverend servant of the Lord, Mr. Thomas Shepard deceased, sometimes the Pastor of the Church of Christ there. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts] ; Imprimatur, Charles Chancy. John Sherman.Wine for Gospel wantons: or, Cautions against spirituall drunkenness. Being the brief notes of a sermon preached at Cambridge in New-England, upon a day of publick fasting and prayer throughout the colony, June 25. 1645. In reference to the sad estate of the Lords people in England. / By that Reverend servant of the Lord, Mr. Thomas Shepard deceased, sometimes the Pastor of the Church of Christ there. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts] ; Imprimatur, Charles Chauncy. John Sherman.
Cambridge Mass.: : s.n., Printed in the year 1668
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Reas. 1. Because now a man is immediately disposed unto all wickedness, he is filling up his measure very fast.
Reas. 2. Because when the Lord giveth men over to a spirit of Drunkenness, they cannot now understand the cause of their ruin: they are now besotted, and blinded, the Plague of the Lord upon them is not removed, nor they know not the cause of it.
Reas. 2. Because when the Lord giveth men over to a spirit of Drunkenness, they cannot now understand the cause of their ruine: they are now besotted, and blinded, the Plague of the Lord upon them is not removed, nor they know not the cause of it.
Reas. 3. This spirit of Drunkenness it brings division among a People, and this is a forerunner of all misery: ye need not now to doubt of a fire, for it is begun already.
Use. 1. Hence learn, when you see any Nation, Churches or People, given over to a spirit of Drunkenness, to bemoan and bewail their condition bitterly; for they have the tokens of certain ruin upon them.
Use. 1. Hence learn, when you see any Nation, Churches or People, given over to a spirit of Drunkenness, to bemoan and bewaile their condition bitterly; for they have the tokens of certain ruine upon them.